Tiny Pre-Kraxaw

[If you've been directed to this blog looking for 'The Kurt Show', scroll down or click here.]

At some point, this blog is destined to have it's primary focus once again shift. It started out as the Japan blog, and transitioned into the Kurt n Friends blog. It's inevitable that someday it will be oriented around the tiny little pre-person who is allegedly growing inside me and looked like this a few weeks ago:

According to these measurements, it was a little over 2cm at the time. According to the doctor, the little x's at the bottom approximately indicate the location of its TAIL. (Don't worry folks, that's actually normal.)

the Kurt Show

We met Kurt 367 days ago. It wasn't long before we realized that he was a gifted and talented young man. Here are highlights from his first year:



Happy Birthday, Kurt!

Kurt crawls

I think it's an undisputed fact that I take too many pictures and videos of Kurt (the almost-9-month-old son of 2 of my very best friends). I regularly fill up my digital camera's memory drive and run down its battery, and I'm running out of room on my hard drive.

A month ago, Kurt started crawling. That was about the time that I started sorting through videos looking for the progression of his crawling abilities. The resulting video was too large to post, even in low-quality. So here it is in 5 low-quality pieces (with no sound). Don't start watching unless you have about 15 minutes to spare!

my youngest cousin

If you have spoken to Max or I in the last 8 years then you have probably heard of my cousin Amelia. She is one of cutest, smartest, sweetest, prettiest, bestest people... ever. I'm not biased. Would you think Albert Einstein's relatives biased for saying that they were related to a genius? I just speak the truth.

When we were in Yosemite this summer, Amelia's mom had us pose in almost the exact same spot that we'd sat in 7 years previous:

bouncing

Right around the same time that we videotaped that playdate / very slow wrestling match between our 2 favorite then-almost-7-month olds (Jake & Kurt) we had the opportunity to document our favorite then-almost-6-month old (Elise) in her maiden voyage with Kurt's Bungee Baby Bouncer. It took her a little while to figure it out, but she really got the hang of it...

By the end, she was doing almost as good as Kurt.

Kurt & Jake had another playdate at our house recently and we get to watch Elise next week, so maybe we'll get some more video up one of these days...

in case anybody's still paying attention...

...I'm not going to feel too bad for not having posted in a while. I did say from the start that this was probably just a Japan blog, so we've already gone above and beyond. But we wanted to send a little treat out to anybody who's still paying attention...

If you've talked to Max or I recently, then you know that our lives are consumed with other people's babies. Don't get me wrong, we still watch a lot of TV and work like maniacs. But there are babies everywhere, and we love them!

Last week we were lucky enough to host a play date with our 2 favorite nearly 7-month olds, and here's a little bit of the gold we captured on video:

Goleta burns...

We returned home to find Goleta on fire... to be specific, the hills just to the north of Goleta, about 3-6 miles from our complex. These are some views from our complex around 6:00pm...




To top it all off, we keep getting rolling blackouts. Lame!

The blackouts (plus a slightly freaky smell of gas-leak in our apartment) prompted Danielle, Jeff, Kurt and I to seek out chinese food. We bounced from restaurant to restaurant until we found one on the mesa that still had power, and ate heartily. I do have to say that driving around in search of chinese food while one can see flames from the freeway, with ash falling everywhere, was a pretty eerie experience...